Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
Unsarcastically but sadly, yes. It’s the same items, with the same supply chain and the same issues. But it’s at a lower cost to me. Frankly, as things get tight, we’ll all need to make decisions between our ideals and our bank accounts. I assume that most of us will lean toward preserving the bank account and reckon with our ideals later.
There’s a boycott? I just don’t shop there because it’s the same crap as everywhere else for more money and a worse experience.
From my understanding of the thought process (not “logic”, but a thought process), it’s like this: If we place tariffs on nations where we know smuggled goods are coming from, the economic impact of lost trade with the USA will cause them to enforce our border policies about what we allow in. It’s using force (the only language something like the current admin understands) to outsource labor.
They weren’t subtle to begin with.
Gee, that almost sounds like it was intentional.
Lol. I hope the ATCs stay parked on their butts. Let a few of the private jets go down because the FAA isn’t there to keep them on their paths. Or to make any effort to anonymize them, since flight plans are legally required to be public info. Let them feel what the rest of us do.
A human being.
My heart goes out to all of the people she loved and who loved her. For all that Dawn wasn’t a character I liked, I never, ever doubted Michelle as a great actress. She deserved better for her life.
Then whatever a modern OS is under your model is not an OS I’m willing to use. I’ve seen Win 11. I’m going to stick with 10, as I stuck with XP through Vista, had a second machine with 7 through 8(.x), and then surrendered and used Win10 when the 32-bit Win7 machine finally stopped working for love or money.
Mint has worked consistently for me on the PC it’s installed on.
Mint works like Windows and has a lot to offer any Windows 10 user who’s already using FOSS. And tbh Hypnotix alone justified the install of Mint for me. I got a great IPTV viewer, plus a PC that runs everything I want.
Note: I only regularly want Discord, Firefox, Endless Sky, OpenTTD, RetroArch, and LibreOffice. I’m sure everyone else has different goals.
To go in reverse order: iOS & Android are related because they’re Linux/UNIX. They’re not CP/M based. As a result, my level of trust and respect are always near-zero.
I’m glad you have a different experience with GNOME, someone ought to. I guess it wouldn’t be the standard if no one could use it.
GNOME is explicitly what kept me exclusively on Windows for about a decade - and what made me gunshy about Android & iOS. It’s totally impossible to drive anything important, doing anything of value required a DOS prompt and arcane commands that had no relation to their exact counterpart in Windows, and it’s just utterly revolting to me.
Cinnamon is the only DE that made me feel comfortable daily driving Linux.
As someone who wanted to jump in with both feet on my journey to using more than just Windows & mobile OSes, I actually started from Arch. Well, sort of. If you have a beginner who wants to try Linux and actually wants to know the discomfort they’ll experience, give them Archbang.
It works on very basic hardware requirements, does very well as a live distro, and was honestly an important step in my personal journey that has ended me up in a place where I keep two systems - one with Windows 10, and a separate computer with Linux Mint.
Obviously, I’m not in the place many people are. But I just wanted to toss in my 2 cents. Arch itself is not for beginners. Archbang can be, especially if you have a user who’s open to a live distro and doesn’t want to try dual-booting yet (and only has one computer). I think that the project deserves more visibility and support than it gets.
Mbin (rip kbin) reminds me of TweetDeck and the like from back in the day, when I could monitor feeds across Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. That’s part of why I like it. It puts everything in one place.
I keep wanting to try Misskey, Sharkey, or Firefin. I like the concept but keep sticking to Mbin, Mastodon, and Threads.
Oh. So it depends on your position on WPEngine instead.
All of you who were making a fuss over Threads had better act the same way about this - after all, it’s Verizon.
So you’re suggesting that the USA must, economically, start WW3?
I mean, it’s already an over-monetized corp shitshow, because everyone joined it. I knew when so many groups centralized in one place, money and greed would soon follow. All we ever needed was IRC with built in logging. The voice chat and video are always going to be corp run because of bandwidth and storage.